person
Theophrastus
Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatos (c. 371–287 BC); Seneca attacks his claim that the good man is necessarily angry at the wicked.
Reading notes
- On the Shortness of Life §14.5 Theophrastus
Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic school.
- On Anger §1.12 Theophrastus
Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatos (c. 371–287 BC); Seneca rebuts his claim that the good man is necessarily angry at the wicked.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.3.2 Theophrastus
Theophrastus (c. 371–287 BC), Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic school, known for a treatise on friendship; his precept was to judge a man before loving him as a friend, not after.
- Natural Questions §3.11.2 Theophrastus
Theophrastus of Eresus (c. 371-287 BC), Aristotle's successor as head of the Lyceum and a great natural scientist; Seneca draws on (and disputes) his reports on springs and earthquakes.